BROADWATER HUNDRED 



SACOMBE 



she was still under age. He died in 1351," leaving 

 a son Thomas. Mary conveyed her moiety of the 

 manor to her sister Eufemia in 135 5,' 3 so that the 

 whole manor came to Eufemia's daughter Elizabeth 

 and Roger de Elmerugge in 1361." Roger died in 

 1 375," and in the next year Elizabeth sold Sacombe 

 to John de Holt and Alice his wife." Sir John Holt 

 was involved on the king's side in the rebellion of 

 1387, when the royal army under Robert Duke 

 of Ireland was defeated. He was among the 

 five judges sentenced by Parliament to be hanged, 

 but, the sentence being remitted, he with the rest 

 was banished to Ireland and his estates forfeited." 

 Sacombe thus came into the king's hands in 1388. !8 

 Upon Sir John Holt's death, however, in 1419, or 

 perhaps before, it was restored to his son Hugh." 

 Hugh Holt died in 1420 and Sacombe passed to his 

 brother Richard, 30 who sold it in the same year to 

 Robert Babthorpe. 31 The manor-house at that time 

 contained a hall, ' five chambers high and low, and a 

 house for the making of tiles." 1 Robert Babthorpe 

 died in 1436, and the manor came to his son Ralph." 

 From Ralph Babthorpe it passed to his son Robert in 

 1455," and to Robert's son Ralph in 1466." Ralph 

 died in 1490, leaving a daughter Isabel, who was 

 married to Sir John Hastings," and died in 1495." 

 Her heir was her ' kinswoman ' Isabel Plompton, 

 daughter of Robert Babthorpe, who seems most pro- 

 bably to have been her first cousin, but was possibly 

 her aunt. 38 This Isabel was married to William 

 Plompton, and was holding the manor as his widow 

 in 1547." She died in 1552,*° and Sacombe passed 

 to her grandson William Plompton, who in 1593 

 conveyed the manor to Sir Philip Boteler of Watton 

 WoodhalL" At Sir Philip's death in 1607 Sacombe 

 came to his widow Jane,'" and after her death to his 

 grandson Robert Boteler," from whom it passed in 

 1623 to his daughter Jane," who married John, after- 

 wards Lord Belasyse of Worlaby." The latter is 

 said to have sold Sacombe, owing to pecuniary 

 embarrassment, to Sir John Gore," who seems to have 

 been in possession of it in 1669." In 1688 it was 

 purchased from him with the manor of Temple 

 Chelsin by Sir Thomas Rolt,' 5 formerly president 

 of the East India Company and Governor of 

 Bombay, from whom it passed to his son Edward" 

 in 1710.™ Edward Rolt, who was M.P. for Chippen- 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. 2; Edw. Ill (1st 

 nos.), no. 36; Cal.Cloie, 1349-54^.449. 



Js Feet of F. Herts. 29 Edw. Ill, 

 no. 442 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 29 Edw. Ill 

 (zid "«.), no. 43- 



wibid.3<jEdw.III(i Bt „o S .),no.43; 

 Abbre-v. Rot. Orig. (Rec. Com.), ii, 263 ; 

 Feet of F. Div. Co. 36 Edw. HI, no. 99. 



!i Chan. Inq. p.m. 49 Edw. Ill (m 

 no..), no. 43. 



36 Feet of F. Herts. ;o Edw. Ill, 



1. 669 ; Abbre-v. Rot. Orig. (Rec. Com.), 





1754. 



ham, was succeeded by his son 



holding the manor in 1728 s1 and died 



leaving a son Thomas, of the 1st Guards, 



killed in action in 1758, when Sacombe 



have come to his youngest sister Mary Constantia 



Rolt," who married Timothy Caswall of the Guards, 



guide 



M.P. for Brackley. He was a personal friend of Pitt, 

 who used to visit him at Sacombe, and was there with 

 Dundas, his Home Secretary, at the critical time 

 when Lord Gower, ambassador in Paris, fleeing from 

 the French Revolution, hastened to them (2 Septem- 

 ber 1 792), before proceeding to the king. Ma The 

 bust of Pitt presented to Mr. Caswall is now in 

 possession of his great-great-grandson, Mr. J. H. 

 Round, LL.D. He died in 1802 and was succeeded 

 by his son George Caswall, 63 after whose death in 

 1825 s * tne manor was sold to Samuel Smith of 

 Watton WoodhalL' 5 with which manor it has since 

 descended. 



In 1 275 the lord of Sacombe was said to have view 

 of frankpledge, gallows and assize of bread and ale. 16 

 In 1278 William Comyn claimed in his manor of 

 Sacombe all liberties formerly pertaining to the 

 Valognes' lands, viz. soc and sac, toll, team and 

 nfangentheof by charter of Henry I, and 



brel a 



frankpledgi 



bread and ale 'of ai 



1 361 court leet * 

 fishery in the Riv 

 pertain to the : 



mdment of the 



In 1287 galk 

 1 addition. 58 



of 



re claimed 

 ; held at Whitsuntide." Free 

 Benwith (Beane) was said to 

 r in 1590,*" 1609 61 and 1688." 

 water mill in 1086, 61 which is 



ilph Babthorpe, father of Isabel App. 353-4). 

 51, was twenty-two at his fa the 

 t'») death in 1466, at which tir 



: him [Him MSS. Com. Rep. vi, 



her a large difference in ag< 

 sister. It, therefore, seem 

 lie that her father Robert - 

 inger brother, who might h. 



if she was 

 more pro- 

 as Ralph's 



. Her 



Hil. I Edw 



VI, 



r Hend. 



59 ; Cal. Pat. 1385-9, p. 54: 



OT See Cal. Pat. 1388-92, p. 80. 



m Chan. Inq. p.m. 6 Hen. V, no. 43. 



50 Ibid. 8 Hen. V, no. 103. 



31 Cal. Pat. 1422-9, p. 65 ; Chan, 

 nq. p.m. 15 Hen. VI, no. 2. 



« Chan. Inq. p.m. 15 Hen. VI, no. *. 



33 Ibid. no. 60. 



3 *Ibid. 33 Hen. VI, no.40. 



86 Ibid. 6 Edw. IV, no. 37. 



36 Ibid. (Ser. 2), vi, 47. 



10 Chan. Inq. p. 



11 Feet of F. Hi 

 a Ibid. Mich. 1 



. {Ser. 2), *cvi, 8. 

 :». Hil. 35 Eliz. 

 JM. I. 

 vnan. inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccxcvn, i+o. 

 Ibid, ccccii, 144 ; Ct. of Wards, 

 I. Surv. 17 j Privy Seal Docket Bk. 

 Recov. R. Herts. East. 14 Chan. I, 

 5, ,fi G.E.C. CompUle Peerage. 



Chauncy, op. cit. 336. 

 Harl. MS. 5801, fol. 36. 

 Close, 4 Jan. II, pt. y, no. 10. Sir 

 1 Gore wished to have the bargain 

 tided, but the Home of Lords decided 



137 



M Mon. Inscr. 



Sl Salmon, op. cit. 225 ; see also Recov. 

 R. Herts. Mich. 19 Geo. II, rot. 47. 



32 Ibid. East. 32 Geo. II, rot. 361. 

 His elder sister Cecilia lived until 1761, 

 hut apparently did not inherit, as Mary 

 was in possession in 1759. 



5*» Hilt. MSS. Com. Rep. v, Ap P . 307, 

 309. 



;6 ; Recov. 





<n», op. cit. Broadwater Hund. 



Rot. Hund. (Rec. Com.), i, 192. 

 » Flat, de QuoPFarr.{Rec. Com.), 281. 

 « Assize R. 325. 



»Chan, Inq. .p.m. 35 Edw. Ill (irt 

 *■). ■*>• 43- 



60 Pat. 33 Elfe, pt. i. 



61 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccci*, 164. 

 63 Close, 4 Jas. II, pt. y, no. 10. 



63 V.C.H. Hint, i, 337a. 



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